Episodes
Episodes



Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
Awareness as Medicine: The Best Cure for Burnout Is Here, Within Us
Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
Episode 19, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion"
Featuring: Nikki Mirghafori, Paul Condon, and Alejandro Chaoul-Reich.
It’s one thing to be fatigued. It’s another to be exhausted. When we put too much effort over time into thinking, speaking, or doing, at some point we can cross the line into irritability, extreme fatigue, even burnout. We may lose the ability to concentrate or remember, and our motivation for engaging in what we love most. Excessive fatigue can lead to headaches, digestive problems, or illness from a weakened immune system. How much effort is too much? Before crossing the line into burnout, how can we use exhaustion to our advantage? What role can awareness play in the cure? Join us in a fascinating discussion from the perspectives of both science and spirituality.



Wednesday Apr 09, 2025
Embracing Exhaustion, Cultivating Resting with Awareness
Wednesday Apr 09, 2025
Wednesday Apr 09, 2025
Episode 18, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion"
Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
In a live online teaching, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche guides us in meeting any sense of exhaustion or burnout we may be experiencing with openness and warmth, clearing and opening the pathways to abiding deeply and restfully in open awareness. The broadcast marks the start of Month 10 in Rinpoche’s yearlong program, “Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion.” Free and open to all!
In advance of the broadcast Rinpoche encourages creating a bit of space for meditation in your house — in a quiet, peaceful location where you can feel some sense of warmth and connection to yourself. You might provide a comfortable cushion to sit on, and a candle or stick of incense. A supportive outer space can support your inner space during meditation.



Wednesday Apr 02, 2025
Embracing Pride, Cultivating Peace
Wednesday Apr 02, 2025
Wednesday Apr 02, 2025
Episode 17, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion"
Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
In a live online teaching, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche guides us in meeting any pride we may be experiencing with openness and warmth, clearing and opening the pathways to our inherently peaceful nature. The broadcast marks the start of Month 9 in Rinpoche’s yearlong program, “Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion.” Free and open to all!
In advance of the broadcast Rinpoche encourages creating a bit of space for meditation in your house — in a quiet, peaceful location where you can feel some sense of warmth and connection to yourself. You might provide a comfortable cushion to sit on, and a candle or stick of incense. A supportive outer space can support your inner space during meditation.



Wednesday Mar 26, 2025
Spaciously Being Human: Transforming Jealousy into Openness
Wednesday Mar 26, 2025
Wednesday Mar 26, 2025
Episode 16, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion"
Featuring: Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, Geshe Tenzin Wangyal, and Alejandro Chaoul-Reich, Ph.D.
Jealousy is said to be one of the fundamental afflictions of human beings according to the Tibetan Bön and Buddhist traditions. Constantly comparing ourselves to others and wanting what others have leaves us perpetually dissatisfied, competitive, stressed, and exhausted. How can we acknowledge and accommodate our own jealousy such that it can shift or transform on its own? Are there positive ways in which we can channel the energy of jealousy into being of benefit to others or supporting our practice? Is there an “awakened” expression of jealousy?



Wednesday Mar 19, 2025
Embracing Jealousy, Cultivating Openness
Wednesday Mar 19, 2025
Wednesday Mar 19, 2025
Episode 15, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion"
Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
You might compare yourself with another or feel that another’s success reveals your own failure. You might feel bitter or unpleasantly competitive. Perhaps you find yourself thinking, “How come they got it and I didn’t?” In a live online teaching, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche guides us in meeting any jealousy we are experiencing in our body, speech, and mind with openness and warmth, clearing the pathways to our inherently spacious nature. The broadcast marks the start of Month 8 in Rinpoche’s yearlong program, “Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion.” Free and open to all!
In advance of the broadcast Rinpoche encourages creating a bit of space for meditation in your house — in a quiet, peaceful location where you can feel some sense of warmth and connection to yourself. You might provide a comfortable cushion to sit on, and a candle or stick of incense. A supportive outer space can support your inner space during meditation.



Wednesday Mar 12, 2025
Embracing Fear, Cultivating Confidence
Wednesday Mar 12, 2025
Wednesday Mar 12, 2025
Episode 14, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion"
Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
When you are caught in fear, you can feel small, uncertain, unsafe, ungrounded. You might be afraid of what will happen. You lack trust. You might find yourself thinking, “I will never be able to do that.” In a live online teaching, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche guides us in meeting any fear we are experiencing in our body, speech, and mind with openness and warmth, clearing and opening the pathways of confidence that are inherent to our true nature. The broadcast marks the start of Month 7 in Rinpoche’s yearlong program, “Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion.” Free and open to all!
In advance of the broadcast Rinpoche encourages creating a bit of space for meditation in your house — in a quiet, peaceful location where you can feel some sense of warmth and connection to yourself. You might provide a comfortable cushion to sit on, and a candle or stick of incense. A supportive outer space can support your inner space during meditation.



Wednesday Mar 05, 2025
Choosing Wisdom: Discovering Joy in Difficult Truths
Wednesday Mar 05, 2025
Wednesday Mar 05, 2025
Episode 13, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion"
Featuring: Emily McRae, Ph.D.; Margaret Plews-Ogan, M.D.; Geshe Tenzin Wangyal; and Alejandro Chaoul-Reich, Ph.D.
“Truth is always joyful, though the journey to the truth may be painful,” writes Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. Why do some people thrive when facing adversity while others struggle immensely? How can we use difficult challenges as a catalyst for positive transformation? This lively dialogue will explore the notions of wisdom and ignorance from the perspective of Tibetan Buddhist and Bön spirituality, alongside Western philosophical, physiological, psychological systems, looking at what these terms really mean and what they imply for the possibility of transforming difficult circumstances.



Wednesday Feb 26, 2025
Embracing Ignorance, Cultivating Wisdom
Wednesday Feb 26, 2025
Wednesday Feb 26, 2025
Episode 12, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion"
Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
When caught in ignorance you can feel deeply disconnected, unsure, uncertain, lost. You may feel you are not fully present, not at home in yourself. You doubt yourself and others and feel ill at ease. In a live online teaching, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche guides us in meeting any ignorance we are experiencing in our body, speech, and mind with openness and warmth, clearing and opening the pathways of wisdom that are inherent to our true nature. The broadcast marks the start of Month 6 in Rinpoche’s yearlong program, “Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion.” Free and open to all!
In advance of the broadcast Rinpoche encourages creating a bit of space for meditation in your house — in a quiet, peaceful location where you can feel some sense of warmth and connection to yourself. You might provide a comfortable cushion to sit on, and a candle or stick of incense. A supportive outer space can support your inner space during meditation.

About CyberSangha
CyberSangha® is a way to connect with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, ancient Tibetan teachings, and fellow students worldwide through regular live broadcasts that can be easily enjoyed via the CyberSangha Podcast or viewed on cybersangha.net, Rinpoche’s Facebook page, or the CyberSangha community app. All broadcasts are free and open to all.
The name CyberSangha reflects Rinpoche’s commitment to offer free access to his teachings for anyone in the world who might benefit from them. Buddhism speaks of Three Jewels: the Buddha; the Dharma, or Buddhist teachings; and the Sangha — the community of meditation practitioners who follow the teachings and put them into practice. In particular, CyberSangha refers to the international online community of individuals following the broadcasts and seeking nourishment from mutual support.
Rinpoche’s teachings present a doorway to connecting with your best self, a sense of openness, awareness, and warmth that allows you to live to your highest potential. The broadcasts are accessible to anyone, including meditation novices, practitioners with years of meditation experience, and those of any or no religious or spiritual affiliation.
Since 2009, live broadcasts include not only teachings and guided meditations, but also interfaith dialogues, conversations between scientific and spiritual leaders, Tibetan poetry readings, and glimpses of Rinpoche’s life and travels. Volunteers provide simultaneous translation into multiple languages, and the community app enables exchanges between members. Recordings of each broadcast are accessible in multiple languages via archives and language-specific YouTube channels.
Our vision, mission and values:
CyberSangha's vision supports the creation of a spiritually awakened, connected, and harmonious society.
Our mission is to help individuals access their higher awareness through producing and disseminating highly accessible content grounded in the wisdom teachings of Tibetan Bön Buddhism and other faiths — such as teachings, dialogs, and artistic/musical presentations — and to support individuals in connecting with like-minded others who together can manifest our vision of a better world for all.
The guiding principles of our community inspire and instruct our behaviors toward each other, our communities, and the environment. We are:
- convinced that every living being has the seed of awakened awareness within
- cultivating openness, love, compassion, joy, and even-mindedness in all that we do and extend to others
- in service to the truth at the heart of all the world’s great spiritual traditions
- pursuing our own spiritual development through service to others
- inspired in every way by the teachings of Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
- warm-hearted, welcoming, and empowering to everyone everywhere
CyberSangha® provides a variety of educational services including teaching self-development through service, learning, and civic engagement; providing training and study of spiritual growth; offering leadership and development programs; and providing online classes, seminars, workshops, and training for individuals related to meditation, wellness and resilience.
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